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  • DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu issue

    From Reverend Shaft@1:226/44 to Mike Powell on Saturday, August 31, 2024 04:31:11
    Now that I have moved over to dosbox-x, there is a very noticable pause betweenthe version screen and the ANSI screen. Maybe 20 or more seconds before the game continues. Once this happens, the game seems to run and exit just fine.

    Is anyone else using dosbox-x with BRE? If so, did you have to do anything special to get it running?

    I had this same issue on my Win 10 Pro/64 VM. I never could figure out what caused the issue. After re-launching my system on a Win 10 Pro/32 VM (which I created specifically for using NTVDM instead), and the problem promptly vanished.

    There has to be a DOSBox-X setting we're missing somewhere.

    Sorry I can't be of more help than just corroborating your findings.

    RS

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to REVEREND SHAFT on Saturday, August 31, 2024 09:54:00
    I had this same issue on my Win 10 Pro/64 VM. I never could figure out what caused the issue. After re-launching my system on a Win 10 Pro/32 VM (which I created specifically for using NTVDM instead), and the problem promptly vanished.

    There has to be a DOSBox-X setting we're missing somewhere.

    Sorry I can't be of more help than just corroborating your findings.

    Someone in another echo suggested that I (1) remove any unnessary files
    from the BRE directory, so I moved the contents of \DOCS into its own
    directory that was not under the BRE directory, and (2) that I tweak the "cycles" setting in the config file.

    He gave me a starting point, and it was actually a little too fast for some other doors. So I worked it down to this and it seems to work:

    cycles = auto 1000 15% 10000

    I think his initial suggestion was this:

    cycles = auto 3000 15% 30000

    Mike

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